A real fire was burning brightly in the grate at the Yarborough Hunt pub, on Bridge Street, Brigg, on Saturday night.
It warmed the room so wonderfully that one or two of us vacated the vicinity for fear of nodding off - pint in hand!
This pub - an old-fashioned ale house until the 1960s - has some quaint features, including the area marked Ron's Old Shop.
There's been an extension sideways in recent times and the area we were in, with fire blazing, was in that part of the pub.
We have been careful not to use the term "coal fire" as they were feeding it with logs, from time to time.
The rain was lashing down outside as we enjoyed our solitary pint before switching to another part of the pub. Snow would have really fitted in with the scene on Saturday night, though we would draw the line at mulled wine replacing our real ale!
"rons old shop" referrers to the fruit & veg shop that is now occupied by the empty chicken takeaway,
ReplyDelete......but does anyone remember when the fish fryers in chippies were heated by coal fires?......or the radiant red coke fires in the braziers of the road works's watchmen?......or the times when grown-ups rushed thro' the house with a shovelful of glowing coals to start another fire in a grate of another room?.....or the coalman's dray being pulled by horses?....or the time when Ken Dodd was a coalman........his family were coal merchants and KD use to deliver coal to my Uncle Ken in Roby, which is next to Knotty Ash.......
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